States and individual counties run American elections, but Trump wants Republicans — not even the federal government, but Republicans — to run elections. When that happens, there might as well be no elections.

House Speaker welcomes Trump call to ‘take over’ elections, claims Dem wins appear ‘fraudulent’

If elections are still allowed, the winner will be the party that does the best and broadest gerrymandering. Each voter’s individual vote will be even more irrelevant than it is now.

It’s an excellent impromptu interview with an angry lawyer, except that the journalist forgets to ask the lawyer’s name.

Excerpt: According to a DHS press release and social media posts issued the following day, border patrol agents were conducting a “targeted” stop of a vehicle in Portland occupied by two members of Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang. Yorlenys Zambrano-Contreras, a woman in the passenger seat, had been “involved” in a Portland shooting last year, the agency wrote.

Me again: Her ‘involvement’ was that gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

The building is Wrectangle Pizza, where staff and customers fought off an ICE invasion a few weeks ago.

This is an excellent idea, which really should’ve occurred to someone months ago. Yeah, it’s just another observer when the streets are full of observers, but someone employed by the state and probably wearing an armband or something will be more credible than your average earnest activist. It’ll add a layer of objectivity when these state observers are teargassed, arrested, etc.

❶ Shooting at a moving vehicle in an urban area is astoundingly reckless. And ❷ the good guys got away, hooray!

Overcrowded conditions, food that’s often stale or moldy, no medical care to speak of — it’s the perfect Petri dish for contagious diseases.

“No-one touches Mr Trump’s penis without a glove.”

The Washington Post has often sucked, for a long time, but they’ve also done good work. If the Post is gone, how many genuine sources of national news (not opinion) remain? Two?

He’s closing the Kennedy Center for a “thorough renovation,” same as the east wing of the White House was closed. He’s going to tear it down.

I’ve lost track of how many times exactly this has happened.

Excerpt: CBS Austin reached out to Governor Greg Abbott’s office for comment. The governor’s team referred to a social media post he made about a separate walkout in Kyle, in which two students were arrested. In the post, Abbott wrote: “Disruptive walkouts allowed by schools lead to just this kind of chaos. Schools and staff who allow this behavior should be treated as co-conspirators and should not be immune to criminal behavior.”

I expect the jeering from Milan will be so loud, Americans can hear it with their TVs off.

First country in the world with such common-sense safety regulation is … China?

I’ve used the CIA World Factbook a few times. Not often enough that I’ll miss it, but it’s the only thing the CIA has ever done that was helpful for ordinary Americans, so of course it’s scuttled.